But, in doing so, it created a reality that is difficult to reverse.

This is not simply about the price of risk, which is easily reversible.

It can sometimes, but not always, be reversed by defibrillation.

Security rested on a balance of fear, as reflected in the concept of mutually assured destruction.

But viewing the state and the market in terms of their inherent conflict no longer reflects reality (if it ever did).

For the global economy, the malaise reflected in anemic trade growth calls for coordinated fiscal stimulus by the world s major economies.

It is precisely this modern irrationality a product of modernity itself that the terrorist attack launched by the Tsarnaev brothers reflected.

It has curves in two directions, one curve upward and opposite transverse curve down the other, so any kind of perturbation spreads the forces over the surface of this type of shape.

The global consensus, reflected in the Commission report, calls for more exceptions, so that, say, drugs can be made available in any case where to do so could save a life.

Because the remodeling of neurons by stress is reversible, researchers now believe that chronic anxiety disorders and depression represent a lack of resilience, or spontaneous recovery, in susceptible individuals.

And this animation, this shows photosynthetic activity over the course of a number of years, and what you can see is that the boundaries of those deserts shift quite a lot, and that raises the question of whether we can intervene at the boundary conditions to halt, or maybe even reverse, desertification.

Such speculation was enabled by massive deregulation of commodities derivative markets that began in 2000 and that now must be reversed.

Mr. Kourakis (Greece) said that the concern shown by the United Nations to strike a balance between measures against terrorism and respect for human rights, as reflected in Security Council resolution 1373 (2001), was also demonstrated in his country's anti terrorism laws.

In the ancient world there was a lot of respect for unintended consequences, and there was a very healthy sense of caution, reflected in the Tree of Knowledge, in Pandora's Box, and especially in the myth of Prometheus that's been so important in recent metaphors about technology.

Each oscillator can produce sine waves which may also be modified into 3 other waveforms the negative part of the sine can be muted or inverted, and pseudo sawtooth waves (1 4 sine waves upward only with silent sections in between) can also be produced.

In a speech just prior to the recent G 20 summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned President elect Barack Obama against bailing out America s struggling Big Three automakers, arguing that global competition has made their decline irreversible.

Uribe s victory, and the emerging political consensus that it reflects, was remarkable for its peacefulness, in contrast to the violence that left wing guerrillas unleashed when he won the presidency four years ago.

Another problem is that implementing sanctions that cannot be reversed quickly removes the incentive for Russia to return to the negotiating table, especially because the threat of an escalation of financial sanctions lacks credibility, given the risk to European and US financial stability.